Crest - an indirect god sim
Released Mar 2018
Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?
65% positive · 374 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
The developer, Eat Create Sleep, explicitly and unambiguously declared Crest finished in a February 13, 2019 post. They stated: "The game is now complete, there will be no major updates to the game," explaining that sales were insufficient to justify further development. They committed only to monitoring for game-breaking bugs. A subsequent post on February 20, 2020 reaffirmed this, with the developer stating "we have completed Crest" while announcing their next project. The game's full post-launch history supports this: the major December 2018 relaunch (version 1.8) was the final significant content push, followed by one maintenance patch in February 2019, and nothing further since. Both DLC items — the soundtrack and art book — were released back in 2015 and no additional paid content has ever been listed. The developer has moved on to a new game (Among Ripples: Shallow Waters). Crest shipped as a complete product and has been explicitly confirmed complete by its developers.
Evidence
Developer reaffirmed Crest is complete ('we have completed Crest') while announcing their next game, Among Ripples: Shallow Waters, on Kickstarter.
Developer explicitly stated 'The game is now complete, there will be no major updates to the game,' citing insufficient sales to justify further development. Only critical bug fixes would continue.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Eat Create Sleep
Achievements
33
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Welcome to Crest, a unique take on the traditional god sim, where your word is gospel. Control and guide your followers by issuing commandments written in an evolving pictographic language.
How these commandments are interpreted and remembered is not set in stone. What you communicate and what experiences your followers have with the environment is the basis for their religion. Over time, commandments can develop different associations and completely change their meaning. After all, your followers still have free will and will sometimes do what they think is best for them, regardless of what you had in mind.
The consequences of your actions may not always be clear and you will need to be aware of the ever-changing environment, your people's beliefs and their feelings about you.
Will they love, respect or fear you?
How these commandments are interpreted and remembered is not set in stone. What you communicate and what experiences your followers have with the environment is the basis for their religion. Over time, commandments can develop different associations and completely change their meaning. After all, your followers still have free will and will sometimes do what they think is best for them, regardless of what you had in mind.
The consequences of your actions may not always be clear and you will need to be aware of the ever-changing environment, your people's beliefs and their feelings about you.
Will they love, respect or fear you?
Key Features
- Create your own religion, nurture your followers and observe how they evolve, or die, as a result of your decisions - including the unintended consequences of your commands!
- Sandbox-style gameplay: Oversee a world where weather, vegetation, mineral deposits, drought and animal behavior will create surprises
- Weave your own stories through trial and error. The history of your people will be chronicled and presented to you at the end of your vigil using the in-game storybuilder.
- Progress by unlocking new words, increasing the complexity of your commandments
- Customize the difficulty of your games with various amounts of resources, animals, islands and overall island quality
- Built-in Twitch support: When you live-stream the game on Twitch, your viewers can join your cities and vote on commandments to help or disrupt your godly plans
Setting
Crest is an Afrofuturist game that re-imagines how humanity arose in the cradle of humankind on the African continent. It's a historical themed game that tries to emulate an advanced iron age civilization that could have existed a few thousand years ago. The setting for the game world, its flora and fauna is based on African biomes, with rainfall determining the tug-of-war between desert, savanna and jungle.Progression and Losing
Crest is a game about surviving and you can never win the game, only survive and experience an interesting journey. Its focus is on replayability. Every new world you start is unique and will write its own stories. If all your followers die, that world is gone forever. However, you will still be able to view the legacy of your previous worlds. As long as your people live you can continue playing and further shape your own history by creating more and more complex commandments with newly unlocked words.Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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